Mark Anthony Pelini is the Defensive Coordinator for the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. He served as head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from December 2007 until November 2014. He is the younger brother of former Florida Atlantic head coach Carl Pelini. Pelini played free safety for the Ohio State Buckeyes from 1987 to 1990.
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Mark Anthony Pelini is the Defensive Coordinator for the Louisiana State University Tigers football team. He served as head coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers from December 2007 until November 2014. He is the younger brother of former Florida Atlantic head coach Carl Pelini, who has frequently worked under Bo as an assistant coach. Pelini played free safety for the Ohio State Buckeyes from 1987 to 1990. In 1994, Pelini got his first position in the National Football League when he was hired by the San Francisco 49ers head coach George Seifert as a scouting assistant. He was hired as the New England Patriots’ defensive backs coach in 1997. In 2000, he became the linebackers coach for the Green Bay Packers under head coach Mike Sherman. In 2003, he was the defensive coordinator for the NebraskaCornhuskers. In 2005, he joined the LSU Tigers Head Coach Les Miles as defensive coordinator. In 2007, the Tigers defeated the Tennessee Volunteers 21–14 in the SEC Championship Game and went on to win 38–24 against Ohio State’s alma mater, the Buckeyes, in the 2008 BCS National Championship Game. In 2010, he took over the Youngstown State University football team and led the team to a 17–3 win over the Michigan State Spartans in the 2003 Alamo Bowl. He also served as the co-defensive coordinator at the Oklahoma Sooners in 2004 and 2005. In 2011, he helped the Sooners to a 6th place national rushing defense and 11th placenational scoring defense on their way towards winning the 2004 Big 12 Championship Game, where they were defeated 55–19 by the USC Trojans.
In 2012, he led the Tigers to a 38–14 win over Ohio State to win the 2007 SEC Championship on the road. In 2013, he replaced Bill Callahan as the head coach at Nebraska after he was fired by the Oakland Raiders after a disappointing 4–12 season. In 2014, he resigned from his position at Youngstown to take the head coaching job at Louisiana State. He will remain at Louisiana state until 2019, when he will take over at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in sports administration from Ohio State College of Business. In his first year at Nebraska, the defense was ranked 55th nationally. In 2002, the season prior to his hiring, the Cornhusker’s defense led the country in turnover margin. In 2004, despite posting a 9–3 record, the Nebraska athletic director Steve Pederson decided after a 41-day search to hire Bill Callahan, who had just been fired by Oakland Raiders, to replace him. The following year, Nebraska’s defense fell to 56th nationally, and Pelini was hired to lead the defense again. In 2009, he hired LSU Tigers head coach Les Miles to be defensive coordinator, and the Tigers were ranked 3rd nationally in overall defense for each of his three years with the Tigers. In the 2010 season, LSU was ranked 3 third nationally in defense.
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